This week’s Thrifty Finds (19-25 March 2018)

Hello and welcome to another week of Thrifty Finds. This past week I have:

1. Donated a bag of clothes to school for a fundraiser.

2. Saved £12 off a supermarket shop with a voucher I had.

3. For the first time I made a homemade waffle mix, which turned out really well! We have a sandwich toaster which also has a waffle plate. I hadn’t made waffles before and – for some reason – I thought they would be difficult. In the end I googled a simple recipe and discovered the waffle mix is very much like pancake batter (I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before!). I ended up making a double batch which lasted us two days :

4. A friend lent me the book for our reading group so I don’t need to buy it, or source it from the library.

5. Finally, my proudest achievement of the week: I took part in our annual Community Litter Pick. About 30 volunteers turned up on Saturday morning to help clear the village of rubbish. I went off to the Recreation Ground and spent about 90 minutes clearing the hedges around the football pitch and the skate park. I came across three footballs, one bike and lots and lots of plastic drinks bottles and crisp packets. I created two bags of rubbish. The total for the village was 40 bags of rubbish – 10 more than last year. But maybe this means there were more volunteers and more was cleared, rather than an increase in the rubbish that was produced?

What were your Thrifty Finds? Do you have any ‘thrifty’ plans for Easter?

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4 thoughts on “This week’s Thrifty Finds (19-25 March 2018)”

That’s an awful lot of litter collected!
There are a couple of local walks I do that take me past rubbish bins, and I now make a habit of picking up some of the stuff and putting it in the bin as I pass – its a small thing, but working on the premise that litter attracts litter, I hope it helps to reduce it a bit.

As for thrifty finds, I’m in the process of building shelves out of wood I got through Freegle. I have had to buy wood for the posts and brackets/screws but overall it’s saved me money and repurposed something that would otherwise have gone to the tip 😊.